Forbidden Ferrero Rocher. Photo: IBM IBM's Selectric Composer was a special edition of the famed business-class typewriter that used proportional type instead of fixed-width characters, allowing the typist to create beautifully typeset documents that appeared printed , decades before computers made it easy. Now we have computers, though, we want the fancy typewriters back. Jens Kutilek writes up how the custom typefaces created for the Composer were revived as modern fonts . It's a wonderful history lesson, too! Max Caflisch, a Swiss typographer, and consultant to IBM, was tasked with selecting typefaces for the new machine. IBM contacted Adrian Frutiger to ask him if he would adapt his Univers type family for the new machine and to its 9-unit system. Frutiger negotiated the licence terms and began adapting eight styles in sizes between 7 and 12 points. At this point, a problem became apparent.…